Choices women make : agency in domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work /
Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inhe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780816676569 0816676569 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Women's agency: Is it a matter of an individual's capacity for autonomy? Or of the social conditions that facilitate freedom? Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, Carisa R. Showden investigates what exactly makes an agent and how that agency influences the ways women make inherently sensitive and difficult choices--specifically in instances of domestic violence, assisted reproduction, and sex work. In Showden's analysis, women's agency emerges as an individual and social construct, rooted in concrete experience, complex and changing over time. She traces the development and deploy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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